University Research Committee

2009/2010 Abstracts

Wickram Ariyasinghe

Absolute K-shell Ionization Cross Sections of B and F Under Electron Bombardment.

(Physics / Arts and Sciences)

David M. Arnold

Classification of Almost Completely Decomposable Groups

(Mathematics / Arts and Sciences)

Janet Bagby and Lucy Barnard-Brak

Examining Executive Functions in School-aged Children

(Educational Psychology / Education)

Katie M. Binetti

Isotopic Sampling of Early Pliocene Mammalian Fossils from Kenya

(Anthropology, Forensic Science and Archaeology / Arts and Sciences)

Erica D. Bruce

Investigation of Cell Culture Techniques for a Rare Seal Muscle Cell Line: Isolation and Immortalization.

(Environmental Science / Arts and Sciences)

Kevin D. Dougherty

A Place to Belong: Small Groups in Big Churches

(Sociology / Arts and Sciences)

Eva I. Doyle

Women's Health in Kurdish Villages of Armenia: a CBPR Study of Needs and Capacities

(Health, Human Performance, and Recreation / Education)

Jacquelyn R. Duke

Riparian Forest Basal (Tree Diameter) Growth Response to River Flow Along an Impounded River in Central Texas

(Biology / Arts and Sciences)

George W. Gawrych

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Turkish War of Independence

(History / Arts and Sciences)

Adrienne Harris

Partizanka Zoia: The Creation, Mythologization, and Subversion of a Soviet Martyr

(Modern Foreign Languages / Arts and Sciences)

Christopher Kearney

An Inducible Plant Viral Vector System with Lowered Environmental Risk

(Biology / Arts and Sciences)

Ryan S. King

Using Stable Hydrogen Isotopes to Identify Energy Pathways in Small Streams of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

(Biology / Arts and Sciences)

Myeongwoo Lee

Integrin Function in Vivo

(Biology / Arts and Sciences)

Carol Fiorillo Macaulay

AMS (Accelerated Mass Spectrometry) Dating of a Late Prehistoric Campsite in North-Central Texas, Upper Sprague Site (41HM54), Hamilton County, Texas

(Anthropology, Forensic Science and Archaeology / Arts and Sciences)

Lorin Matthews

Coagulation of Dust as a Precursor to Planet Formation

(Physics / Arts and Sciences)

Todd Meehan

Commissions and Premieres: A Recording of Contemporary Solo Percussion Music

(Instrumental Studies / Music)

Jay Pulliam

Active Tectonics of the Northeast Caribbean: Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

(Geology / Arts and Sciences)

Barbara Purdum-Cassidy and Rachelle D. Meyer

Action Research and Its Impact on PDS Partnerships

(Curriculum and Instruction / Education)

Andrew Scherer

Archaeological Exploration in the Classic Maya Kingdom of Piedras Negras

(Anthropology, Forensic Science, and Archaeology/ Arts and Science)

Michael W. Stroope

Models for the Church's Encounter with the World

(George W. Truett Seminary)

Randal L. Vaughn and Eunjee Song

Security Intelligence Cooperative

(Information Systems / Hankamer and Computer Science/ Engineering and Computer Science)

Anzhong Wang

Late Cosmic Acceleration of the Universe in Superstring/M Theory

(Physics / Arts and Sciences)

Joel A. Weaver

Studies in the Greek Documentary Papyri

(George W. Truett Theological Seminary)

Walter Wilcox

Eigenspectrum Noise Subtraction Techniques in Lattice QCD

(Physics / Arts and Sciences)

Daniel H. Williams

Apologetic Literature in Early Christianity

(Religion / Arts and Sciences)

Mary M. Witte

Examining Gender Differences in Early Mathematical Experiences

(Curriculum and Instruction / Education)